Collapse of roof could cause severe economic loss and poses safety risk to residents in the building. This paper presents a nonlinear dynamic analysis of steel framed roof structures with force limiting devices under combined static and transient wind loading. Two types of force limiting devices – one with selfcentering behavior and the other exhibiting bilinear-like hysteresis are examined for...

This study determined that knee extension (range, -30 degrees to 2 degrees) and the slope of the intercondylar roof (range, 26 degrees to 46 degrees) vary widely between knees in both men and women. We found a weak relationship between knee extension and the slope of the intercondylar roof (r2 = 0.207); therefore, roof angle cannot be predicted by clinically measuring knee extension. CLINICAL R...

Contact between an anterior cruciate ligament graft and the intercondylar roof has been termed roof impingement. Grafts with impingement sustain permanent damage, and if the injury is extensive enough, then the graft may fail, causing recurrent instability. This study evaluated two mechanical factors that could be responsible for the graft injury associated with roof impingement: an increase in...

Gable roof buildings are widely used in industrial buildings. Based on wind tunnel tests with rigid models, wind pressure distributions on gable roof buildings with different aspect ratios were measured simultaneously. Some characteristics of the measured wind pressure field on the surfaces of the models were analyzed, including mean wind pressure, fluctuating wind pressure, peak negative wind ...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to evaluate a new method for validation of complete linear block at the left atrial (LA) roof. BACKGROUND Linear lesions at the LA roof have been reported to improve the success rate of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS Complete linear block at the LA roof was evaluated in 31 patients after complete isolation of pulmonary vein antrum (P...

This paper presents an approach to creating a polyhedral model of building roof from LiDAR point clouds using clustering techniques. A building point cloud is first separated into planar and breakline sections using the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix in a small neighbourhood. The planar components from the point cloud are then grouped into small patches containing 6-8 points and their nor...

In times of higher market prices of fossil fuels and to meet the increasingly environmental and economic threads of climate change renewable energy must play a major role for global energy supply. This paper focuses on a new method for fully automated solar potential assessment of roof planes from airborne LiDAR data and uses the full 3D information for both, roof plane detection and solar pote...

BACKGROUND Debate exists on the proper relation of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) footprint with the intercondylar notch in anatomic ACL reconstructions. Patient-specific graft placement based on the inclination of the intercondylar roof has been proposed. The relationship between the intercondylar roof and native ACL footprint on the tibia has not previously been quantified. HYPOTHESIS...

One of foremost problems in stand-alone photovoltaic systems consists on the election of a strategy for charge controllers. The charge controllers main function is the accumulation system protection, and this leads to an extension of the batteries lifetime, thus reducing, the long term economic cost of the installation. This document describes a Fuzzy Logic based charge controller. In order to ...